Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.